Word: splat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...derived by computer analysis of 50 leading indicators or by going out and staring at the moon, depending on one's methodology, is that the future looks bad. The audience of gray and balding heads does not know if the economy will make a soft landing or a big splat, but for now they have their assets safely tucked away in Treasury bills and money-market funds, where the 9% or 10% return makes it O.K. to be boring...
July 30, The Bags, The Splat Cats, and the Piranha Brothers...
...figure skater Brian Boitano to the gentle dismay of the hometown Calgarians. The Americans had to plow their way through nearly half the Games to reap just two medals: the 1,500-meter silver taken by Flaim, and a bronze won with a bobble and a splat by Figure Skaters Peter Oppegard and Jill Watson. The U.S. pair looked thrilled anyway, and the gold-medal spectacle of Soviet 5-ft. 11-in. Sergei Grinkov tossing 4-ft. 11-in. Ekaterina Gordeeva into the rafters enthralled almost everyone...
Under cover of night, a diminutive pedestrian crosses the wooded country road. Suddenly white beams of light roar toward him. The stroller instinctively rolls into a spiny ball. Bad move. Splat...
...begins as "General" Zimmer commands six players to guard the flag and orders two attack squads to seize the enemy's standard. At first, all is silent save for the desert wind whipping through the brush. Then the defenders spot an infiltrator 40 ft. away. Rotholz opens fire. Splat. "I got him. I got him," he yells. Meanwhile, three of the Hollywood 17 penetrate their opponents' defense and grab their flag. First round to Hollywood. Much gloating follows...